Hi Jim! This is CoffeeAchiever. I haven't posted on the RE forum since I can't remember when. A fellow ACR member read your post about "The Show" and told me about it. My ACR handle is "Stephen". I'll be at the Show this coming Sunday on my '09 G5 Deluxe. I've got almost 16,000 miles on her clock now. Hope to see you there.

For those who didn't make it I've attached several pictures of some of the motorcycles that were there.The two Vincents I saw two weeks ago made it so I got a few pictures of them this time.Actually, there were three Vincents there. Of more interest here there were two Royal Enfields (besides CoffeyAchievers and mine).One was a 1914 vintage, first sold in New Zealand at the time the 1st World War started.The other was a Rickman framed Series II Interceptor.

Noting the rear chain drive with what appears to be a drum inside the rear sprocket it appears this motorcycle had the famous Royal Enfield "Cush drive" system that was first used in 1912.Many motorcycles during this period used leather belt drives because they dampened out the shocks that could be transmitted thru a real chain drive. The Royal Enfield design used a rubber shock absorbing device to eliminate these hard shocks and it is still being used today on all of the RE motorcycles.

The large ring on the right side of the rear wheel is similar to a giant V groove pulley. A V shaped rubber wedge was pushed into it on the forward side to serve as the only brake.

The headlight is an acetylene gas light. The acetylene is produced by slowly allowing drops of water to fall on the dry Calcium Carbide in the body of the light. It was a common, but not very effective form of lighting for a lot of motor vehicles at the time.

The horn is a Antique Klaxon Plunger Horn which produces a "OOOOGGAAH" when depressed.